I don't want exciting I want stable.
Yeah no I want exciting too.
I would recommend not installing beta drivers in that case.
I’d recommend avoiding NVidia in general. Their drivers are intensely hit or miss. Any time anything has gone wrong with my PC, NVidia and their shitty drivers have been the culprit.
Any time anything has gone wrong with my PC, NVidia and their shitty drivers have been the culprit.
This seems unlikely. You've never had a hard drive failure, bad RAM, missing dependencies, malware or bugs in any other software except NVIDIA?
You must be one heck of a statistical outlier.
In the past two years? Nope, entirely NVidia. There’s been a bunch of problems, absolutely, but it’s always been NVidia’s garbage drivers at the core of it.
In the past two years? Nope, entirely NVidia.
2 years without a non-video card related problem? I don't think I go 2 weeks without some issue or another (Arch life).
Literally haven't had a single problem on arch that was due to arch in like 6 years.
Nvidia has caused more issues then arch has.
Literally haven’t had a single problem on arch that was due to arch in like 6 years.
Are you guys LLMs? This is English but it doesn't seem to have any correlation to actual reality.
What are you doing that you have constant problems with Linux? What distro, what hardware? I've been using Linux since Slackware decades ago and it's been years since I had to babysit it.
I'm using Arch. There are constant things that need tweaking and adjusting. Configuration-wise I couldn't use the analog and digital outputs of my sound card using the default Pipewire/Wireplumber configuration
Problems this week include things like Freetube failing to work because Google updated YT and a script breaking because Pandas updated to 3.0 when the script uses 2.0.
Not world ending problems, but certainly not in any way graphics card related (I also use an NVIDIA graphics card).
Someone making the statement that they have had no computer problems in years that were not related to their graphics card is simply nonsense or has some trivial explanation, like they have never updated and are suffering from the same problem for years or are defining 'problem' in some limiting way.
Lol, let me know when they add back support for GTX 1000 series cards. XD
Amen to that brother 🙏
My 1070 ti is chugging on strong 🤟😎
I built a new machine with a free 1070-ti in it like a month ago, was a big upgrade for me.
Already moved to AMD.
I don't buy hardware from companies that are hostile to open source.
Has anyone been able to get HDR working in Kubuntu 25.10 without the system crashing entirely?
Have you tried moving to a newer kernel? It should be working with Nvidia latest and KDE latest (Mine is solid on CachyOS) so it could be a kernel bug for you. No real downside to installing a newer one; but depending on your setup there could be a few regressions that might force you back to stable.
No real downside to installing a newer one; but depending on your setup there could be a few regressions that might force you back to stable.
So there are no real downsides except for potentially that it won't work and will waste a whole bunch of time and you'll have to revert.
Yep. No downsides.
That's literally how any update on a computer ever will work. Real downsides worth mentioning would be like "you'll be unbootable, you can't rollback, it'll update a bunch of other packages, it might delete user home". Having to select an old entry in your grub config at boot because the new kernel doesn't play nice with any number of custom peripherals or packages on your system is not what I would consider a serious downside and you'd have to do it if Kubuntu decided to roll a kernel update anyway. Do you uh, use linux?
HDR improvements are coming in some later driver version.
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/vulkan-extensions-needed-for-hdr-is-missing/334268/14?u=tda0626
So the answer is shrug with a side of "thoughts and prayers!"
How can anyone get excited over GPUs in 2026?
Like, what are you looking forward to at this point? Just enjoy what you have...
Wow an expectation of future vague performance improvements is exciting indeed!
Vulkan developers said last year that this is the single biggest bottleneck on Nvidia cards that they are aware of. Of course, the final performance improvement can only be known once it is properly implemented, but their guestimation is that it should bring the performance much closer to Windows performance.
I already get better frame rates on Linux than I did on Windows. But I won't complain about more of them
exciting one? like full of bugs and crashing constantly?
Not upgrading. The last two on Windows apparently had lots of bugs
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